My future Python IDE article

[Tom Lee]

I second that.

JEdit is fantastic.

No matter what language I use it for, it never goes against the grain of 
my programming style.

However, it's particularly good for both Python, XML/HTML/CSS/etc. and 
PHP. Java has Eclipse and NetBeans, C/C++ has MSVC/KDevelop/Anjuta 
(although in Linux I use JEdit for C/C++ too!), but nothing compares to 
JEdit for the previous languages.

Only complaint is the startup time - can be a painful wait at times, but 
I love it all the same.

Folding, too, is brilliant. You have to try it to really appreciate it. 
I recommend checking out the folding in 4.2pre4 - different colours for 
different levels of nested folding.

- TL

Hardy Jonck wrote:
> mertz at gnosis.cx (David Mertz) wrote in message news:<mailman.1061920192.21278.python-list at python.org>...
> 
>>Pythonistas,
>>
>>
>>So c.l.py readers... make the case for your favorite one getting on the
>>list.  I have a while to ponder the opinions advanced, should this
>>prompt some discussion (it may take a little while to order review
>>copies of commercial tools and/or get things installed).
>>
>>Yours, David...
> 
> 
> I recently had a look at Jedit and must say I am impressed. Python
> support via Jython 2.1 - but the extensibility and philosophy that
> comes with Jedit is amazing. Would be nice to have more development in
> it to make it an even better Python editor that it is now. It has
> advanced features, very good code folding, excellent searching, class
> browser, integration with Ctags that works great with Python, regular
> expression cross project search and replace, sftp, ftp, CVS
> integration (GREAT) and integrated DIFF, XML and XPATH, and tons of
> other very handy plugins to do 100% hands off mouseless efficient
> editing.
> 
> Have a look at www.jedit.org and install version 4.1 stable. Install
> Jython from the plugins directory and make shure to set the prefrences
> so that it pre-loads Jython and classes. Then install Sidekick and
> tags. Set Folding mode to Sodekick and that almost completes the
> setup. Now install gruntspud from the plugins directory and you have
> CVS with full integration into the editor.
> 
> Only thing missing is full code completion like PythonWIn offers...
> 
> Sincerely,
> Hardy Jonck